Mathurin-Leonard Duphot

Mathurin-Leonard Duphot (21 September 1769-December 1797) was a poet and general of the French Republic who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars.

Biography
Mathurin-Leonard Duphot was born on 21 September 1769 in La Guillotiere, Lyon, in the Kingdom of France. At the age of 15, he joined the Vermandois Regiment of the French Army, and in 1794 he was made a Chef-de-Battalion of the French Revolutionary Army after joining a volunteer regiment. He served under General Pierre Augereau and was mentioned in dispatches by him during the 1796 Italian Campaign. He fought at the Siege of Mantua, Battle of Rivoli, and La Favorita under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte, and was made the commander of the Cisalpine Republic troops. He was responsible for training and equipping the Cisalpinian forces, and rose to Brigadier-General early in 1797. Along with Joseph Bonaparte, Duphot was sent to Rome in the Papal States to organize a revolt, but when he held a republican festival to incite a riot, he was killed by Papal troops. This gave Napoleon the excuse to form the Roman Directory after capturing Rome in 1798.